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This 1917 guide by a pioneering physician, written at a time when ignorance was rife, addresses the need for up-to-date, frank sex knowledge for women and girls, the physiology and psychology of sex, anatomy, puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, the fetus, prenatal care, abortion, miscarriage, masturbation, menopause, venereal disease, contraception, advice on marriage, and more.
82) Gendered Spaces
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In hundreds of businesses, secretaries -- usually women -- do clerical work in "open floor" settings while managers -- usually men -- work and make decisions behind closed doors. According to Daphne Spain, this arrangement is but one example of the ways in which physical segregation has reinforced women's inequality. In this important new book, Spain shows how the physical and symbolic barriers that separate women and men in the office, at home,...
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Written for students of psychology, this 1922 work examines the values, motives, and impulses of the adult-and how these are related to "original nature." Along the way it calls into question contemporary theories of institutional repression and thwarting of expression, as espoused in "the dogmatic claims of evolutionists."
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Summary of All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister | Includes Analysis Preview: All the Single Ladies is an examination of the role of marriage in the lives of women in the United States today and a historical accounting of how the institution arrived at its current juncture. Following an academic investigation into the state of marriages for American women in the past, Traister describes the ways women are reclaiming the institution on their own...
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This vintage book contains Edward Carpenter's ground-breaking study of homosexuality, "Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk - A Study In Social Evolution". It is a fascinating study of social evolution centered on the idea that there is a spectrum of 'types' of man and woman. The author postulates that there exists a range in sexuality, there being feminine bodies with masculine minds and vice versa. Expertly written in a manner that makes it readily...
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Historian and philosopher John Fiske tried to reconcile orthodox religious beliefs with Darwin's science, both on the lecture platform and in his collections of essays. Excursions of an Evolutionist is one such collection, eloquently written and containing such chapters as, "Europe Before the Arrival of Man," "The Origins of Protestantism," and "Evolution and Religion," as well as a brief memoir of Charles Darwin.
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As new forms of family and "non-traditional" families grow in number, there is a need to understand these 'new' arrangements and models of parenthood. This ground-breaking book discusses, using a comparative and a sociological perspective, examples of the relationship between changing gender identities and processes of family formation in the Western experience. It aims to show that, in the 21st century, it is possible to form a family without sex,...
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El libro Las mujeres-espera de la migracin indgena en Nayarit rescata nuevas situaciones e intersecciones de los movimientos de personas en la bsqueda por abrir horizontes entre sujetos olvidados en las sociedades actuales: mujeres indgenas de comunidades de la montaa, mujeres que paciente o impacientemente esperan a quienes se fueron: padres, esposos, hermanos o hijos. Mujeres que sostienen en vilo la esperanza mientras sus hombres intentan empujar...
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Despite economic growth, decreasing fertility rates, and rising education levels, women in Asia are on average 70% less likely than men to be in the labor force, with the country-to-country percentage varying anywhere from 3% to 80%. Results of a new simulation model suggest that closing the gender gap could generate a 30% increase in the per capita income of a hypothetical average Asian economy in one generation. This report discusses the reasons...
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Mead's anthropological examination of seven Pacific island tribes analyzes the dynamics of primitive cultures to explore the evolving meaning of "male" and "female" in modern American society. On its publication in 1949, the New York Times declared, "Dr. Mead's book has come to grips with the cold war between the sexes and has shown the basis of a lasting sexual peace." This edition, prepared for the centennial of Mead's birth, features introductions...
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Women's economic empowerment is essential for more inclusive growth in Cambodia. This study takes stock of major gender issues in the Cambodian economy seen through the lens of women's participation, benefit, and agency---the three prerequisites for a fairer distribution of growth benefits. It examines labor market trends and obstacles to women's economic empowerment---particularly in agriculture, business development, and wage employment. Labor migration...
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An illuminating follow-up to Kathleen Barry's powerful landmark book, Female Sexual Slavery, that assesses the landscape of abuse prostitution 15 years later
In 1979, Kathleen Barry's landmark book, Female Sexual Slavery, pulled back the curtain on a world of abuse prostitution that shocked the world. Documenting in devastating detail the lives of street prostitutes and the international traffic in women, Barry's work was called "powerful and compassionate"...
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"Necesitamos visualizar un mundo que celebre el amor en cualquier forma, orientación sexual o expresión de género." En Barreras para Amar, la psicoterapeuta Marina Peralta utiliza su propia historia de vida para hacer frente a la cuestión de la identidad bisexual. Situado en México y California, Marina revela cómo el abuso sexual a una edad temprana, la llevó a una confusión sexual en su adolescencia. Plantada por su primer novio, reconfortada...
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This anthology takes an international and cross-cultural approach to discussions about friendship by curating a set of diverse contributions situated in a transnational context. These interdisciplinary contributions take friendship seriously as a subject of feminist and legal study and hone in specifically on polyamory, polygamy, and Platonic affinities, considering the sexual and non-sexual ties of affect and affinity that link a diverse range of...
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This is a book about speech and the silencing of speech; about who gets to speak and who does not; about who is listened to and who is ignored. In this down-to-earth analysis of the democratic principle of freedom of speech, Betty McLellan insists that, if this prized democratic principle is to have any continuing credibility, free speech must be free for all. Written from the perspective of feminist ethics, Unspeakable focuses on how women are silenced...
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The Liminal Chrysalis: Imagining Reproduction and Parenting Futures Beyond the Binary is an edited collection that works to identify and deconstruct many of the countless binaries that operate within the realms of parenting and reproduction. Weaving poetry, speculative fiction, and autobiography with interviews, critical analysis, and research, the authors take as their starting place that there is magical potential and possibility in the ambiguous,...
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I think it's safe to say our culture is a parody of gender identity. Men desire to be men, but most men haven't the slightest clue what real manhood looks like. Women desire to be women, but most women are stuck in the same rut. And this is because we're always going about it the wrong way. We can be sure of at least one thing: What we're doing isn't working. Not only is it not working, but it's making things worse. Our vision for what men and women...
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The autobiography of the first known recipient of gender-affirming surgery, a story adapted into the feature film The Danish Girl.
An inspirational and moving account of the transformation of the painter Einar Wegener into Lili Elbe, compiled from Lili's own letters and manuscripts.
Lili Elbe was, in 1931, the first transsexual to receive a male-to female sex change. This remarkable book-a sensation when first published over eighty years ago-shows...
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